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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The Islamic State Threatens

The Islamic State terror group has threatened to “uproot the state of the Jews” and pursue “Hamas dictators” in Gaza.

In a video published Tuesday, IS accused the Islamist Hamas of being soft in enforcing religious law in the Palestinian enclave it controls. “We will uproot the state of the Jews [Israel] and you [Hamas] and Fatah [in the West Bank], and all of the secularists are nothing and you will be overrun by our creeping multitudes,” a masked Islamic State member said in the recorded message addressed to the “tyrants of Hamas.”

The rule of Sharia [Islamic law] will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you. We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp [in Syria], will happen in Gaza,” he said, in reference to the besieged Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus.

Overrun by their "creeping multitudes"?

Well, that does, indeed, sound creepy.

However:

Israeli Intelligence minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) told a security conference Tuesday that despite the tensions between the two, Hamas and IS were cooperating in the Sinai Peninsula, which has seen an uptick in violence since the overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

Why the western powers, not to mention the eastern powers and all other powers, allow this group to operate is astonishing to me. The West does not want war, but all these people do is war. That is their entire reason to be. They honestly believe that Allah wants them to wage war against the infidel and so they are waging war against the infidel. Of course, to ISIS everyone who is not a member of ISIS is, essentially, an apostate, which is why they can even consider their brothers-in-hatred, Hamas, to be filled with non-believers who must be hunted down and destroyed.

The Islamic State, therefore, is going to continue beheading people, burying children alive, raping prepubescent girls, and destroying humanities heritage of classical antiquities until such a time as they are stopped.

Either that or we simply have to live with these murderous scum, and their Hamasnik semi-enemies / semi-allies, threatening everything and anything that is decent on this planet.

Political Islam, as a whole, is the enemy of humanity and obviously a direct enemy to the western liberal tradition. It is also at the root of ongoing Koranically-based Muslim hatred toward Jews.

Among all the big mistakes that Barack Obama has made as president of the United States, perhaps the biggest was in accepting political Islam as a legitimate actor on the world stage that could be partnered with. Obama tried to partner with the Muslim Brotherhood, but that deal went kaput due to the fact that the Egyptian people have enough common sense and general human decency that they did not wish to be ruled over by theocratic fascists. Failing that, Obama is hoping to partner with the ayatollahs in Iran in the ridiculously naive belief - one assumes - that a stable nuclear Iran will represent a moderating force in the region.

What former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, suggests in Ally - and my view on the book will be published by the Jewish Press this Sunday along with my regular Sunday column for the Elder - is that Obama was influenced by post-colonial theorists, such as Edward Said, who unjustly present the tensions as one between a violent and racist western imperial machine versus pastoral-Arab indigenous people who want nothing so much in this world as to tend their ancient and sacred olive groves in peace.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

Quote of the Whenever:

It is not that most progressives are anti-Semitic. They aren't. It's that they don't get it, they don't care, and they very much want you to shut the fuck up. - Michael Lumish